What’s Happening In Hip-Pop: American Idol’s Original Judges To Return For Final Season, “Fifty Shades Of Black” Trailer, & More

Paula, Simon, & Randy are coming back.

According to host Ryan Seacrest, the three original judges, Paula, Simon, and Randy will be back in some way for the fifteenth and final season. Seacrest revealed to Access Hollywood, “I’ve spoken to all of them recently and we as a team have talked to them about coming back to do something for the final season. They are going to do it it’s just a matter of figuring what to do with them.”

Season 15 of American Idol premieres on Wednesday, January 6 at 8/7c on Fox.

Derek Jeter is denying any claims that he backed out of his Frigo underwear deal because he thought brand ambassador 50 Cent would make the company “too urban.” The Yankee star told Page Six, “I facilitated the introductory meeting between 50 Cent and the company, so it makes absolutely no sense that I would object to 50 Cent.”

Jeter also revealed that Mathias Ingvarsson, the company’s majority owner who started the allegations, had threatened to launch a negative PR campaign against him, and that he plans to sue Ingvarsson.